How Traditional Professionalism Excludes Neurodivergent Professionals

Why “professional standards” often silence neurodivergent voices and what needs to change for true inclusion at work.

Professionalism is one of those words that gets thrown around as if its meaning were self-evident. In workplaces, it is held up as a gold standard of behaviour, a gatekeeping mechanism that supposedly ensures fairness and respect. But when we start to interrogate what “professionalism” actually looks like in practice, we find that it is far from neutral…